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Comment by jensketch

This is a first attempt video. Instead of trying to hard counter the Family types here I instead just went in with a strong Minefield & Nether Gate switching combo and brought along the typically strong Death Adder Hatchling in the pocket. The team I used was:

This is one of those easy battles where a load of strats will easily beat them!

Comment by Xilu82

I beat this with Bonkers (2,1,1) Darkmoon Tonk (1,2,2) and Lil Tarecgosa (2,1,1)

I started with Bonkers "Going Bonkers" and then "Haymaker" and if it missed, I just forefited and tried again until it landed. I just used bite until Grubbles died. Bonkers usually died without getting a hit on Scrags, but he died quickly to the tonk. Finishing off stings with Tarecgosa was pretty easy, but I did have some RNG crits cause me to lose once. Hope this helps some of you who may not have the other pets listed!

Comment by divinesoul

I like finding new teams for these fights yet I still find some old ones still useful so this team comes straight from a celestial tourny team from pandaria.

Comment by sidelsky18

I randomly tried it with those three pets in that order. My Murkalot managed to take out the first pet, then I sent out the Robo Cub who annihilated the second and third pet with some (admittedly lucky) Demolish hits. He actually one-shot the second pet with Supercharge + Demolish.

Comment by my1if34wow

@ZeroEdgeir, I made some modifications to your strategy such that I could easily level my pet.

Comment by Tirain

Any ideal Pet Battle team minimizes the damage taken by taking into account the kinds of abilities the enemy will be using, while maximizing the damage done by setting yourself up with abilities that are counter to enemy types.

Here are the three pets you want for this fight:

1) Flayer Youngling - as a humanoid, he takes less damage from Grubbles and using Triple Snap and Rampage (beast attacks) he has the advantage.

I opened up with the Anklerender using black claw and Hunting party. Grubbles should die on the 2nd hunting party.

If i can, I'll use black claw Scrags. If not, it's no loss. Once the Anklerender dies i pull out the Reaver and use Super charged followed by Metal fist until Scrags dies.

The Reaver should be able to hit Stings once or twice before he dies. After the Reaver bites the dust, i take out my Whelpling and use emerald bite until Stings dies. Easy win!

Sorry there are no links and it's probably formatted wrong. First time posting to Wowhead! Hope this helps.

Comment by Spellotape

I was able to two-pet this with Alpine Foxling (325 speed) and Darkmoon Zeppelin, though it was a close fight and my third pet of choice was Infinite Whelpling. Alpine Foxling's Dazzling Dance was the key factor here, as being faster allowed for this combination to win - without it, it won't work.

Edit: it's important to make sure Alpine Foxling can cast a second Dazzling Dance before it dies, this will be important if your third pet need to be brought in.

Comment by seckid

IMPROVED! reliable 2 pet strategy (with pet 1-25 leveling option)

close to 100% success rate now

The previous strats posted were good, but I was dying early. I wasn't doing quite the damage required and I also wasn't faster than these guys. So i played around with ZeroEdgeir & my1if34wow's strats to allow for misses, low dps, slow speed, and the use of either 2 or 3 pets.

If the iron starlette dies at turn 10, simply follow the alternate ending.

Note: if you only want to use two pets (no leveling pet) then use Crush on Turn 5 instead of swap.

From Moonie below:I changed up my powerleveling position the second time this fight showed up and so I am editing this reply. I now follow your Xu-fu strat til Stings comes in. At that point I switch to a powerlevel pet (must have 450+hp, 700+ if a flyer), and then switch to Chrominius, doing the Howl, Surge of Power finish. This results in less messing around during Scrags. The fight ends in round 13. Round 10: Switch to plvl. Round 11: switch to Chrominius. Round 12: Howl. Round 13: Surge of Power.

An alternate strategy for this using two pets is Anubisath Idol + Iron Starlette. I picked this up from a couple of people at For this combo I went as follows:Anubisath - Crush, Sandstorm, DeflectionIron Starlette - Wind up, Toxic Smoke, Supercharge

SandstormCrush x5DeflectionCrush (until he's dead)

Swap in level petSwap in Iron Starlette

Wind upToxic SmokeWind up (Dead pet)

Wind upSuperchargeWind up (Dead pet)

This will allow you to level any pet (not limited to magic/mechanical like Xu-fu can be).

Comment by cmacord

Good ole SandKing, my Anub Idol, had a perfect outing (no misses + a couple of nice crits) and killed the first two pets, dying after doing about 15-20% damage to the third. I then brought in my carry, then finished the 3rd off with an Iron Starlette, although at that point just about anything would have worked.

I gotta say, despite all the sexy pets that have come out, there really isn't anything that compares to the good ole Anub Idol. I first met him when I had just started the PvP Pet Battles, and one of them destroyed my entire team. I immediately started looking for a way to get one. Wound up buying a level 25 off AH for 8k....best gold I have spent in this game !

Comment by Burnay

Xu-fu just solo'd this for me

Prowl-->Feed on cooldown. Nuff said

Comment by Kaitrosebd

I like using easy to get pets and for this team I used: Elder Python, Emperor Crab, & Nexus Whelpling

Grubbles: Elder Python starting with huge fang followed by burrow, follow up with poison fang between cooldowns. This should take out Grubbles with a bit of health left.

Scrags: I found him to be the hardest, I tried a couple mechanical pets with a boost against him but none was as effective as emperor crab for me, try it though maybe the right mechanical pet would be a good alternative.

I started using elder python for a couple rounds letting him get stunning before swapping in emperor crab rotated whirlpool, surge, and renewing mists. I passed on stuns letting emperor crab stay in. After a few rounds of this Scrags was taken down pretty easily.

Stings: I used Nexus Whelpling who has a nice boost against this guy using arcane storm, then mana surge, and frost breath between cooldowns.

My aim here is to develop solid strats so as to utilise and benefit from the massive XP gains these fights offer, whilst carrying pets as low level as possible. If you have an improvement suggestion for this or any of my other strats please leave a comment, keeping in mind I won't be making strats for single-boss fights due to the lack of bonus XP.

Comment by Azuraa

Strat:*Use Flayers Rampage first and then use Triple Snap until Grubbles is dead*When Scrags comes out use Deflection and spam Triple Snap until the Sticky Goo debuff drops off*Switch to Menagerie Custodian and spam Zap until Scrags' health is low enough to use Ion Cannon and kill him*When Stings comes out, keep fighting with the Menagerie until it dies*Use you Crimson Geodes Amplify Magic and then Spam Spark until Stings is dead

I adapted this strat from Wowpetbattle.com, but added the Crimson Geode in (wowpetbattle suggests using a Lofty Libram).

1) Spirit Claws (Use this ability until it hits. You can miss once. If you miss twice, forfeit, heal, and try again)2) Prowl3) Feed

Then you use Prowl and Feed when they're off cooldown.This should allow you to get all the way to the last fight with Stings.Use Spirit Claws.Swap in your leveling pet for a turn. Don't use any abilities.Swap back to Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen. Use his rotation until he dies. Then useChrominius.

Even if Xu-fu doesn't do any damage to Stings, this strategy still works.

With a Pet Treat and a Lesser Pet Treat and a Safari Hat I could level 5 pets from 1 to 25 in an hour.Patch 6.1 has severely restricted the xp gain from these menagerie battles.

I used AeroKargath's strat as a baseline for this. Truthsnark's suggestion of Howl makes this so much easier. Edited accordingly.

Comment by DOLamba

Just read through the comments to find a strategy I had the pets for. Sadly that turned out to be next to none. I might've been able to make up a 3 pet strat, but seeing as there's a lot of 2 pet strats going around for the plushie, I was hoping for that too.

So I tried going with my allstar (Emperor Crab P/P) and then finding a dragon with magical attack for the last.

It worked well with an Emerald Proto Whelp from Sholazar Basin, but Chrominus worked out even better.

The fight goes like this for me.

Emperor Crab starts with Claw, Healing Wave and Shell Shield.R1; ShieldR2; SnapR3; HealR4; SnapR5; SnapR6; ShieldR7; HealR8; Snap => You have shield up, close to max health and Grubbles die.R9; anything (you get stunned and can't swap out)R10; Get hit.R11; Shield (it passes for some reason)R12; HealR13; SnapR14; SnapR15; Swap to level pet (so that it gets stunned)R16; Swap back to crab.R17; HealR18; ShieldR19; SnapR20; SnapR21; Swap to level pet (so that it gets stunned)R22; Swap back to crab.R23; Snap => Scrags die.R24 and onwards; Just do anything while waiting for your crab to die. Then use howl + Surge of Power on Chrominus to deal 2221 damage which is more than 500 over Stings max. Job's done and it works 100% of the time. :-)

It might be a tad slower than other tactics, but it's bulletproof.

Comment by serdarturk

Fast leveling strategy.

I used that strategy nearly 3 hours to level my lowest leveled pets and only failed 3-4 times.

Comment by krhudsn

Updated for 6.2.3 - Less steps and more reliable

Easy way to do this with reasonably easy to acquire pets. Key to this strat working is the first fight with Grubbles, an unlucky crit can screw you over. So, if Raptor is not alive when Scrags comes out, start over. I did this multiple times and haven't had the Raptor die but it is feasible that a crit or multiple 3x attacks from Grubbles could put your victory in jeopardy.

1. Start with Raptor and cast Overtune followed by Expose Wounds.2. Cast Bite.3. Cast Overtune followed by two Bite attacks.4. Grubbles should be dead, Scrags comes out.5. Expose Wounds with your Raptor, Raptor will then be stunned.6. Switch to Gnome and Build Turret.7. Metal Fist and Scrags dies.8. Switch to Arcane Eye and Focused Beams followed by Mana Surge.

Done and done.

EDIT: Fixed abilities list for Gnome

Comment by Truthsnark

Actuallysmart's strategy below goes from 95% success to 100% success with the following modifications:

Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen 112Chrominius 212Leveling Pet of any level; they will take no damage

Grubbles

Xu Fu: Spirit Claws (if it misses, forfeit and restart), Prowl, Feed.

Scrags

Xu Fu: Spirit Claws, Prowl then Feed on cooldown.

Stings

Xu Fu: One Spirit Claws, swap to leveling pet of any levelLeveling Pet: sit there and let Stings cast Focus then swap back to Xu FuXu Fu: Spirit Claws until deathChrominus: A) if Stings is below 1110 HP, use Surge of Power. B) If Stings is above 1110 HP, use Howl -> Surge of Power

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Comment by eeedge

With the advent of 6.1.0, pet menagerie dailies are a terrible way to level pets. A level 17 pet will get 93 XP rather than a full level. Level 1 pets can get 26 XP.

Comment by Samhane

Grubbles, Scrags, Stings:1. Lil'Bad Wolf: Claw, Dodge, Howl2. Iron Starlette: Wind-Up, Toxic Smoke, Supercharge3. Any / Not Needed or Leveling Pet (Needs to be able to take a hit and only 88xp at lvl 5)

Start with Lil'Bad Wolf: -Use Dodge on cooldown -Use Howl on cooldown -Pass through stun -Use Claw as filler until Lil' Bad Wolf is dead -Pass through any stuns -If your using a Leveling Pet, you want your Lil' Bad Wolf to last until it takes 1 hit from Stings. Stings second ability used should be Focus, which does no damageAfter death Use Leveling Pet: -You want to swap to the Leveling Pet even if Lil' Bad Wolf is still alive -Perform 1 action and take your hit. In most cases, if done correctly, Stings will cast Focus, which does no damageSwap to Iron Starlette: -Use Wind-Up -Use Supercharge -Use Wind-Up (Fight should end here) -Use Toxic Smoke to clean up, if needed

Scrags: stuns on first round, just pass when he have stunned, the Idol can tank it.1: sandstorm2: crush3: rupture for more dmg4: getting stunned again, just pass and use crush next5: crush or rupture and Scrags dies

(If Idol dies during this, just switch in the dragon pet you have and finish off Scrags)

Stings:1. crush/rupture or do the awesome anti-flying skills that Lil'Tarecgosa and Nether Faerie Dragon have2. Idol will most likely die, put in Lil'Tarecgosa or Nether Faerie Dragon and do some hard hitting spells, and he dies very fast.

TL;DR: Anubisath Idol can do first and second pet easy with just dmg, if he dies duringpet #2, switch in one of the 2 other pets and finish it off. The third pet, Stings willdie fast with Lil'Tarecgosa / Nether Faerie Dragon attacks vs flying pets.

Comment by Stompa

This is meant to help those who don't have the pets listed in other posts.Stings is best countered by a flying pet with magic damage. Options:

Pay attention to your pets life : when it's under 50% DO NOT use Howl, use it just before your Fel Pup death. It should give you a +100% damage buff on your Nexus Whelpling for one round, it could allow you to swo-shot Stings !

Comment by andoopoop

To all those out there who have only started battle pets in this WoD expansion and don't have many pets yet or most good pets are reasonably low level, this is for you! I only recently got Anubisath Idol and I am waiting for the next Darkmoon Faire before I can purchase my Darkmoon Tonk. I practically solo'd all 3 pets with my first pet. Here's what I used;

Imp out first, rush rush rush until it dies. You should still have a lot of hp as the attacks are weak against you. Throw in a cauterize if you really want but your humanoid trait should allow you to get enough hp back. Kept Imp out and flamethrower with occasional cauterize to kill boss. Kept Imp out again and used combination of Rush, Flamethrower and Cauterize. I received a crit from the last boss and Imp died with last boss on 172hp and 1 round of burn left. Chrominius came out next and Surge of Powered it for overkill. You can use Arcane blast if you like but I have Bite in there just in case. 3rd pet did not even come out so you could potentially bring a low level pet to boost.